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After the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody trusted the EU government. So why should their announcement of first contact with alien intelligence be believed Matt Cairns thinks he can discover the truth. It is out there, but much further away than he imagined. Thousands of light-years from Earth, a human colony is struggling for survival.

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The Second Sphere is thousands of light years away from Earth - if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns and the cosmonauts of the Bright Star, this distant corner of the galaxy is their new home. But the Second Sphere is also home to other civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race of god-like aliens.

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The final volume in Ken MacLeod's far- future SF trilogy.